EU to propose unilateral 30% GHG cut by 2020

摘要

The EU looks likely to increase its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for Europe unilaterally, from a 20% cut compared with 1990 levels to a 30% reduction by 2020, its climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard told the environment committee of the European parliament in Brussels on April 26.rnThe possibility of upping the EU's target to 30% was included in a list of tentative proposals under consideration in the European Commission's work program, adopted March 31, but Hedegaard said this was looking more likely with preliminary research showing that a 30% cut "would be technically feasible and economically affordable."